What's disappointed me most about RDM in 5.0

[Nalien]

(looking at you reprise - Unless there's something in that tooltip we don't know about for the enchanted version, it is completely useless for any skilled red mage).

You know, I've always kind of wanted Red Mage to have a reason to mess up its gauge... Lets be real, it's a very boring gauge... It's just too basic... The whole "You can mess up the balance" is a nice idea, but in practice it really should never happen, so in the end we just have the same boring gauge most Jobs have alongside something else....

Reprise could have been a nice way to add something in there though. Make it a DoT. Base Reprise is nothing. Enhanced Reprise (balanced) is a mid-potency DoT. Black/White Reprise (unbalanced gauge) is a high-potency DoT.

Red Mage finally gets DoT management, and that also works to do something new with the gauge. When it's time to reapply the DoT, you want to aim to have either too much White or too much Black. IDK, just a random thought. Doesn't even have to be a DoT TBH, that was just my first thought, just anything to have us play around with our gauge in a different way...

[Rongway]

Red Mage finally gets DoT management

No job "needs" a DoT just to have a DoT. We even just removed all the "has a DoT just to have a DoT" DoTs just this expansion.

[Nalien]

No job "needs" a DoT just to have a DoT. We even just removed all the "has a DoT just to have a DoT" DoTs just this expansion.

Like I said...

Doesn't even have to be a DoT TBH, that was just my first thought, just anything to have us play around with our gauge in a different way...

DoT management was just the most obvious gimmick that came to mind.